RASC News Agency: While Afghanistan’s girls have been denied the fundamental right to education for over 1,400 days, the Taliban’s campaign of Madrassa construction is accelerating at a pace unprecedented in the country’s history. According to figures released by the Taliban-controlled Ministry of Education, the construction of religious seminaries in the month of June alone has increased sevenfold compared to the previous month. Though the Taliban present this expansion as a sign of investment in education, it is, in reality, the blueprint of a larger ideological project designed to engineer obedience, radicalism, and blind servitude among future generations.
Recent weeks have witnessed the inauguration of seminaries such as Taleem-ul-Quran for Girls in Parwan and Hazrat Usman Dhul-Nurayn in Herat. New projects are also underway in Paktika, Sar-e-Pul, Ghazni, and Balkh provinces, with Taliban officials boasting of a combined budget exceeding 45 million Kabuli rupees. Yet, behind the public narrative of “educational progress” lies the stark reality: these institutions are not schools of learning but factories of extremist indoctrination.
The curriculum promoted in these Madrassas does not encourage inquiry, science, or constructive thinking. Instead, it centers on distorted interpretations of religion, glorification of violence, and promotion of suicide attacks as a path to heaven. These seminaries actively train young minds in weapon handling, guerrilla warfare, and the ideology of “martyrdom,” planting seeds of extremism where the light of modern education should have been. Security analysts and human rights advocates warn that these Madrassas are ideological assembly lines, designed not merely to shape Afghanistani youth but to export terrorism across the region. International observers have repeatedly sounded the alarm, asserting that the Taliban’s systematic expansion of religious seminaries is a deliberate strategy to cultivate a new generation of radicalized militants indoctrinated, obedient, and hostile to modern values.
This policy underscores a deeply sinister paradox: while girls are denied classrooms, scientific education is being obliterated, and universities are either suspended or reduced to silence, the Taliban are investing millions in structures that propagate their dogma. These Madrassas have become the regime’s preferred tools of control, creating a population conditioned to accept violence, suppression, and gender apartheid as divine decrees. The implications are profound and dangerous. By shutting down intellectual growth and blocking access to modern knowledge, the Taliban are dragging Afghanistan into a cycle of structural violence, poverty, and perpetual backwardness. The international community, despite repeated warnings, has failed to adequately challenge this calculated assault on education and the future of Afghanistani youth.
Since the beginning of this year alone, over 20 extremist Madrassas have either been built or are under construction across multiple provinces. This rapid expansion is not incidental it reflects a deliberate plan to cement Taliban’s ideological dominance, ensuring that the next generation is raised under a rigid framework of fear, indoctrination, and absolute obedience. In a country where women and girls are barred from even the most basic schooling, these religious seminaries function as ideological weapons, not institutions of learning. They replace education with indoctrination, critical thought with radical dogma, and the promise of progress with the darkness of perpetual conflict.
